Archives: April 2011

Welcome once more to the Miskatonic branch of SQL University. I see that most off you survived out last encounter… uh, class. Most of you even appear somewhat sane… somewhat. Today we’re going to talk about PowerShell and it’s use with SQL Azure. Which sounds a something like an… Read more

Juneau (New Development Environment)

I like to run Powershell from the windows OS. You can run it through SSMS if you wish, but I want to concentrate on the OS version. It’s just personal preference. I’ll be honest with you – when researching Powershell for the first time I came across an article… Read more

Its the sale of the century. To coin a cleaned up phrase from a Guy Ritchie film (either Snatch or Lock Stock, I forget. No prize on offer, but if you know which film its from leave me a comment with the answer.)

Just a quick mention that I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room twice this week - today, April 27, at noon Eastern for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter and Saturday, April 30, at SQLSaturday #74 in Jacksonville.

We have just kicked off The Mentoring Experiment after talking about it for months. There has been a lot of interest and quite a few applications submitted. We’ve even had a lot of people ask if we needed help mentoring people, which is great. If you’re interested, you still have… Read more

It was announced yesterday that the cost of taking a Microsoft exam will increase from the 1 July. In the UK the price will be increasing from £88 to £99. A fair amount of my readers and visitors come for the USA. If you are taking the test across the… Read more

Spatial Features

A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as a developer before moving into database administration in 2008. Consequently, I find this relationship to be one of the easier aspects of my job to manage -… Read more

For Day 26 of this series, I want to talk a little about laptop processor selection (since I get a lot of questions about it). Many DBAs, Developers, and consultants use laptop computers as their primary workstations for working with SQL Server. Even more than an actual database server,… Read more